Headline numbers

What changed.

47% CPL reduction

Cost-per-lead across the 12-property portfolio, weighted by spend. Reduction held for the duration of the engagement.

12 properties scaled

From four properties at engagement start to twelve in production by month four — onboarded one per fortnight.

4.1× efficiency

Aggregate campaign efficiency: cost per booking divided by campaign management overhead. Compounds with each property added.

Zero brand drift

Every creative shipped passed Marriott's brand-safety review. VIMC01's guardrails caught variant errors before launch.

EN + AR + RU

Three-language campaigns running concurrently — Arabic for GCC, English for international, Russian for inbound demand from CIS markets.

Unified reporting

Single dashboard across all 12 properties. Marketing leadership sees the portfolio. Each GM sees their own property.

The brief

What Marriott needed.

Marriott's MENA portfolio in the UAE spans business hotels, resorts, and luxury — each property with its own positioning, audience, and seasonal demand pattern. Marketing had been managed property-by-property, which meant 12 different campaign structures, 12 different agency relationships, and 12 different reports each month.

The mandate: keep the property-level autonomy that made the brand work — but introduce a portfolio-level system that compounds learning, removes duplicated effort, and gives marketing leadership a single view of performance.

What we did

A platform, not a service.

Phase 1 VIMS01 designed a portfolio architecture: one shared performance layer, twelve property layers. Brand consistency at the top, property nuance below.
Phase 2 VIMD01 instrumented unified attribution across the booking engine, GA4, ad platforms, and Marriott's loyalty layer. First time the portfolio could be measured as a portfolio.
Phase 3 VIMP01 and VIMC01 onboarded the first four properties — JW Marriott Marquis, Le Méridien, Marriott Hotel Al Forsan, and the Aloft. Six-week ramp per property.
Phase 4 Onboarding continued at one property per fortnight. By month four the full portfolio was running on the unified architecture.
Phase 5 Operational mode — weekly portfolio review, monthly property-level deep dive. Each new property added compounds the system's data advantage.

In their words

What the client said.

"Scaling paid media across 12 properties simultaneously was a logistical nightmare before VIMDRIVE. Now it runs itself. The brand consistency, the property-level customisation, the real-time reporting — it's a different category of service."

S
Sara Khoury
Director of Digital, Marriott MENA

Operating a portfolio? We're built for that.

Single property, twelve, fifty — the architecture compounds at scale. Book a call to see how it would map onto your portfolio.